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valerie berseth
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social scientist and environmental researcher looking for any excuse to be close to the water
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How do we conduct ethical environmental research in a world on fire?

Excited to share a new article in #WIRES with Angeline Letourneau outlining Climate Change-Conscious Methodologies #cccm - open access here:

dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc....
Climate Change‐Conscious Methodologies: Ethical Research in a Changing World
Caption: Climate-change conscious methodologies require responsible and human-centered research, attending to shifting vulnerabilities over time, adapting methodologies, and adopting a community-cent...
dx.doi.org
Really looking forward to #4S2025 - I'll be in Seattle speaking about my work with #SEEKCommons this year on #openscience as a distrust technology. Reach out if you're going to be there!

#STS #sociology #environmentalstudies
March 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I am honoured to receive the Early Career Prize from Environmental Sociology for: lnkd.in/e27ABipc

Finding: Adaptation technologies are not always seen as threats to naturalness and can be seen as necessary to restore what was lost #environmentalsociology #conservation #climateadaptation #wildlife
January 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Folks are starting to protest in response to the federal funding ban. These times are starting to get scary. Please be careful whatever you do and read up at @aclu.org before you go! Details are here: www.mobilize.us/climateactio...
WHITE HOUSE RALLY · VizEvents
The White House has just frozen federal funding, a move that could halt payments within days to states and households relying on essential programs like SNAP food aid, housing assistance, education, h...
www.mobilize.us
January 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I cannot stress enough how irrelevant it is to talk about what services would change pos/neg if the US annexed Canada.

I've heard a lot of this lately and stunned at how casually people are skipping past the violent takeover part of the threat.

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Bernie Sanders Is 'All For' Canada Becoming The 51st State If The U.S. Will Also Adopt Universal Healthcare
Sen. Bernie Sanders has sparked conversation on social media with a post tying universal health care to an idea floated by President-elect Donald Trump. According to The Associated Press (AP), at a di...
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January 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
How do we conduct ethical environmental research in a world on fire?

Excited to share a new article in #WIRES with Angeline Letourneau outlining Climate Change-Conscious Methodologies #cccm - open access here:

dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc....
Climate Change‐Conscious Methodologies: Ethical Research in a Changing World
Caption: Climate-change conscious methodologies require responsible and human-centered research, attending to shifting vulnerabilities over time, adapting methodologies, and adopting a community-cent...
dx.doi.org
January 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Are you a #gradstudent or #postdoc in the #PNW? Check out the NW Climate Adaptation Science Center Research Fellowship Program - up to $65k to support research related to #climateadaptation for natural and cultural resource management. Deadline March 10

nwcasc.uw.edu/about/fundin...
Applying for the Research Fellowship Program | Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Centerarrowarrowarrowarrowarrowarrowarrowarrowearthlab-uw
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January 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
For the last year I've been a fellow with #SEEKCommons, an incredible network of people pushing for the #commons as "a political principle for #communitybuilding around common tools and approaches to #socioenvironmental studies"
Read more about this innovative and exciting work here:
#sociology #sts
Common(s) in Science and Technology? Dispatches from the SEEKCommons Network | Platypus
As a distributed network of researchers, technologists, and environmental activists, we proposed, therefore, to shift the frame from debates about the promises and perils of “openness” to the anthropo...
blog.castac.org
December 19, 2024 at 5:56 PM
What can salmon 🐟 teach us about trust?

Read/listen to my post on #Platypus about the challenges for #openscience in addressing ongoing histories of distrust, and lessons from the amazing journeys salmon take to the ocean and back. #digitalsociology #environment #socialscience #seekcommons
Swimming Against the Current: Navigating Distrust in Open Science | Platypus
In the effort to build trust in science, the complexities of distrust must be confronted. Open science practices alone are unlikely to address deeper issues of power and people’s past experiences with...
blog.castac.org
December 19, 2024 at 5:42 PM
You may know your moon sign, but what ~salmon~ are you? 🌊 I'm a Chinook 😊
www.salmonsociety.com/journey/

#salmon #peopleandnature #quiz #fish #biodiversity #chinook
November 27, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Very excited to dive into this over the holidays, specifically "Biocultural Histories of the Black Anthropocene" and "Papering over Muddy Histories: Imperial Logics of Space in the Anthropocene"
#postcolonial #anthropocene #environmentalstudies #sociology #environmentalhistory
Biocultural Empire
Human species supremacy is one of the most persistent fictions at work in the field of modern British imperial history today. This open access collection challe…
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November 25, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Listening to discussions about sea otter reintroduction in Oregon. "If there are Indigenous words for sea otters but they are not here, why?" #stateofthecoast #oregonseagrant #elakhaalliance
November 23, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Attending the #StateoftheCoast conference this weekend and we kicked off with sharks. Did you know some sharks eat beavers??? Also don't fear sharks but don't cuddle them either
November 23, 2024 at 8:55 AM